Director of Business

Salary Range: $60,000-$80,000

About LTYC: Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center is committed to cultivating positive social development,
academic success, and creativity in the minds, actions, and hearts of youth today. Through arts
education programming, our mission is to encourage youth to use their gifts and strengths by applying
the arts and leadership as tools, to help promote success and balance in their lives.

Position Summary: Under the direction of the Chief of Innovation and the Founder/President, the
Director of Business is a pivotal role responsible for overseeing the company's human resources,
business, and development departments. This person acts as a liaison between our operations,
accounting, and expansion departments, external partners, ensuring smooth and efficient operations
while overseeing all financial aspects of business driving the company’s financial strategy and planning.

Position Responsibilities:

Business Functions

• Develops business operations by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends,

and variances.

• Supports leadership by providing advice, counsel, and decisions; analyzing information and

applications.

• Collaborates with external and internal accounting teams to prepare timely and detailed reports

on financial performance including accounts payable and aging summary reports.

• Creates an annual operating budget and conducts analysis of financial risks and benefits of

business initiatives

• Oversees all audit and internal control operations.
• Manages establishes and executes contracts with vendors/partners
• Ensures the organization's compliance is up to date with internal and external insurance

regulations and renewals, and files annual compliance reporting with state, federal and local

government entities.

• Well-versed and comply with federal, state, and local legal requirements

• Support with issuing estimates and invoices to school districts and partners
• Additional tasks as assigned

Development Functions

• Develop multiple fundraising resource streams in excess of LTYC’s existing sources of funds
• Actively work with the Board, Development Team and LTYC staff to develop and implement a

comprehensive development strategy to include corporate, foundation, government grants, and

individual giving.

• Consistently and professionally publicize the activities of the organization, its

programs and goals.

• Develop and execute an annual marketing plan to promote and drive constituents (school

partners, community organizations, businesses, donors, and civic leaders) to support LTYC

through event sharing, community development and outreach, and sponsorship and

fundraising that results in increased revenue, participation, and partnerships.

• Serve as liaison to the media, preparing and planning press releases and pitching relevant

stories as needed to support LTYC’s efforts, and fundraising events and promote LTYC in

feature stories.

• Support in creating marketing materials for LTYC including website and social media updates,

direct mail pieces, brochures, premium items, and posters.

• Additional tasks as assigned

HR Functions

• Develops and Implements strategies by establishing organization accountabilities, including

talent acquisition, staffing, training and development, records management, safety and health,

succession planning, employee relations and retention, DOL compliance, and labor relations.

• Participates and conducts staffing events, interviewing, and transition meetings
• Enforces corrective action plans, leadership reviews, and supervision
• Develops organization strategies by identifying and researching issues and challenges;

contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to organization strategic thinking and

direction; establishing human resources objectives in line with organizational objectives.

• Oversight, implementation of processes, and tracking of all personnel documentation including,

but not limited to employment contracts, agreements, vacation time, background checks,

records, files, etc.

• Updates and creates of all HR documentation such as staff manuals and handbooks

Minimal Qualifications:

• Business Administration or MBA Degree (preferred)
• Preferred experience working in nonprofit leadership
• Preferred experience supervising teams and leading and collaborating with Executive Leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relationship Building: Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to form

trust-based relationships with learned and other stakeholders.

• Emotional Intelligence: Impeccable strategic, critical thinking, and analytical skills. Excellent

written and verbal communication skills and abilities. Attention to detail with the ability to meet

tight deadlines and streamline processes; while taking responsibility for process for

improvement and accountability.

• Operational Excellence: Excellent computer skills, the ability to operate computers and

possess basic knowledge of Google Suite, Quickbooks, MS Windows, Microsoft Word, and other

software. Organizational skills with a high level of professionalism, enthusiasm, and customer

service.

• Entrepreneurial Drive: Regular and consistent attendance, must perform duties with

moderate direction given, operating from established directions and instructions. Able to

self-motivate, self-regulate and make autonomous decisions. Able to comprehend purpose and

drive to carry out directives independently and with a team.

Availability: Must be available for occasional evening or weekend events.